With the global warming of concern, the secondary aluminum stream is becoming an even more important component of aluminum production and is attractive because of its economic and environmental benefits. In this work, ...

The microstructure and crystallographic texture characteristics of an extruded ZK60 Mg alloy subjected to cyclic extrusion and compression (CEC) up to 8 passes at 503 K were investigated. The local crystallographic texture, ...

Deformation twins and stacking faults were observed in nanostructure Al-Mg alloys subjected to high pressure torsion. These observations are surprising because deformation twinnings have never been observed in their ...

The concept of a spin current is a useful tool in understanding spin transport in hybrid systems but its very definition is problematic in systems where spin-orbit coupling effects are strong. In the absence of spin-dependent ...

This article analyses 1,073 e-mails that were hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November 2009. The incident was popularly dubbed 'Climategate', indicating that the e-mails reveal a ...

We study proximity-induced superconductivity on the surface of a topological insulator (TI), focusing on unconventional pairing. We find that the excitation spectrum becomes gapless for any spin-triplet pairing, such that ...

As predicted by the ITRS roadmap, semiconductor industry development dominated by shrinking transistor gate dimensions alone will not be able to overcome the performance and cost problems of future IC fabrication. Today ...

This paper studies the optimum signal choice for the estimation of the aortic blood pressure via aorta radius, using a monostatic radar configuration. The method involves developing the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) for a ...

In this paper, innovation is studied as a set of activities that seeks to deal with uncertainty. It is argued that the very idea of innovation contains the assumption that the future is, in principle, open to change. ...